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| | Developing country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The application of the term 'developing country' to all of the world's least developed countries could be considered innappropriate in the cases of a number of poor countries, due to the fact that they are not improving their economic situation as the term implies, but have experienced prolonged periods of economic decline. | | | A developing country is a country with a low income average, a relatively undeveloped infrastructure and a poor human development index when compared to the global norm. | | | The United Nations allows each nation to decide for itself whether it will be designated as "undeveloped" or "developing" (though many economists and other observers ignore the UN rule about self-designation). |
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| | Conservation Role of Developing Nations |
| | Increasingly developing nations are adopting environmental plans both to look good in the eyes of international financing organizations, and in finally realizing the adverse affects of deforestation for their own economies and peoples. | | | Developing governments could significantly reduce deforestation by changing land title procedures so deforestation is not favored over the maintenance of productive forest. | | | Laws are not in place to be flagrantly violated by politicians and their associates at the expense of the people, the environment, and less well-connected business interests. |
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| | USTR - 10 Ways Global Trade Negotiations Would Benefit Developing Nations |
| | New global trade negotiations would generate approximately $90 billion-$190 billion a year in higher incomes for developing nations, according to study by Joseph Francois of Erasmus University in Rotterdam. | | | • Opening Markets/Opening Opportunities: As much as developing nations may need debt relief and development aid, a prerequisite for their long-term economic growth is full participation with the global economy and trading system. | | | A strong intellectual property regime also discourages brain drain, as it encourages the best and the brightest in developing nations to carry out research at home, confident that the fruits of their labors will enjoy patent protections. |
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http://www.ustr.gov/Document_Library/Press_Releases/2001/November/10_Ways_Global_Trade_Negotiations_Would_Benefit_Developing_Nations.html
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| | Strategy 8: Debt Retirement and Debt for Nature |
| | With some developing nations paying 30% to 40% of their foreign exchange earnings on servicing debts, they are not in the position to import goods from developed countries. | | | Devaluation of developing nations' debts has given rise to an opportunity to retire substantial amounts of debt at a fraction of their face value. | | | The amount needed to retire the major portion of the developing world's debt is about 13% of the annual interest payments on the US government's debt, or 3.8% of the world's total annual military expenditures. |
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http://www.unesco.org/education/tlsf/theme_a/mod02/www.worldgame.org/wwwproject/what08.shtml
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| | Developing countries' debt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Odious debt is debt incurred by undemocratic countries and misspent (for example, on armaments or repression of the population) or misappropriated. | | | Legally, odious debt is debt that resulted from loans to an illegitimate or dictatorial government that used the money to oppress the people or for personal purposes. | | | Unpayable debt is a term used to describe external debt where the interest on the debt exceeds the amount that the country produces, thus preventing the debt ever being paid back. |
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| | Developing Nations |
| | Following these recommendations and providing for significant time for the development of human capital, leadership, legal and financial systems, and industry a poor country will have a good chance at developing into a competitive economy that is able to provide its citizenry with jobs, education, and a chance at a good life. | | | Within the context of developing nations, the cultural, political, and economic realities of each country are often very different. | | | Finally, let us come to a conclusion about what prescription developing nations must follow in bettering the lives of their citizens and in turn creating an improved world for all members of our global community. |
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| | CNN - World Bank: Few developing nations geared for Y2K bug - January 27, 1999 |
| | The World Bank said the financial sectors of developing countries are most ready to handle the Y2K problem, followed by telecommunications systems and power suppliers. | | | WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Citizens in developing nations could find their lives at risk because their governments have not adequately prepared for the so-called Y2K computer bug, the World Bank has warned. | | | Developing nations are more vulnerable to the Y2K bug because, in general, they are more dependent on fewer and older computing systems, according to the World Bank. |
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| | USATODAY.com - Developing nations call for more aid, trade |
| | Jamaica's prime minister, Percival James Patterson, speaking for the Group of 77 developing nations, complained that richer nations have failed to keep promises to stop the outflow of money from poor countries for debt payments and other transfers. | | | Patterson said poor countries are paying some $230 billion a year to developed nations. | | | However, he said, "rapid development cannot be achieved by domestic financing alone" and still requires foreign aid and investment. |
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| | VOA Special English - AGRICULTURE REPORT - 'G22' Developing Nations |
| | In return, the plan called for developing nations to lower taxes on imports and to open their markets to foreign investors. | | | Subsidies permit nations to reduce the price of their exports. | | | He says the meeting broke down over demands by wealthy nations to discuss rules for government purchasing, trade financing and competitiveness. |
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| | Asia Times - |
| | The failure of the talks is regarded by the developing nations in Africa and Asia as a signal of their arrival as a new force to be reckoned with in the global economic stakes. | | | But there is a growing danger that the WTO will recede into the background, regarded by the developed nations as an irrelevant talking-shop for protesters, even as they negotiate the real business of international trade under divide-and-rule tactics to cut even more lopsided bilateral deals than in the past. | | | The Cancun meetings collapsed when the world's poorer countries closed ranks and refused to discuss new issues until some basic issues such as agricultural reforms had been tackled. |
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| | e-OTI: How Real Is the Internet Market in Developing Nations? |
| | But while all governments of developing countries have taken a tentative first step in opening up Internet access via local points of presence, they have not gone much beyond that in terms of promoting government usage of the Internet or increasing diffusion and lowering access costs in remote parts of the country. | | | Much of e-commerce infrastructure involves progressive moves on the legislative and regulatory fronts by government agencies and industry organizations, but the Internet seems to have become a political football in many developing nations, with various government agencies vying with one another for control of Internet traffic and revenues. | | | These are yet to take off in developing nations, and even the much-hyped WAP does not seem to have delivered in many parts of the world, though Japan's i-Mode is often touted as a good example of breaking the PC stranglehold on the Net market. |
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| | Developing country - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The United Nations allows each nation to decide for itself whether it will be designated as "undeveloped" or "developing" (though many economists and other observers ignore the UN rule about self-designation). | | | inadequate reforms imposed in counterpart with financing of last resort, by multilateral organizations (like the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank) to get out of situations of deficit and indebtedness in which the country is placed (see Developing countries' debt). | | | The application of the term 'developing country' to all of the world's least developed countries could be considered inappropriate: a number of poor countries are not improving their economic situation (as the term implies), but have experienced prolonged periods of economic decline. |
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| | Developing nations watch Thailand's bold healthcare plan csmonitor.com |
| | Proponents of universal coverage argue that Thailand and other developing countries can improve productivity and play economic catch-up by investing early in public health, rather than waiting for growth. | | | By correcting this bias toward hospitals over primary care, which is common to many developing nations, government planners want to encourage people to seek care close to home. | | | Thailand's bold experiment with universal health coverage, an expensive privilege enjoyed by a minority of countries, could prove a model for other developing nations, who are watching closely. |
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| | Some Developing Nations Fear Losses as Textile Quota Ends |
| | The quotas encouraged the development of the garment industry in developing nations such as China, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the Philippines. | | | A 30-year-old agreement capping textile exports to most developed countries expires at the end of this month as part of efforts to liberalize world trade. | | | Experts warn that without the quotas, the livelihoods of millions of people will be destroyed and that free trade will penalize the smallest, poorest nations. |
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| | Refuting objections to a Global Rural Network (GRNet) for developing nations |
| | This level of expenditure is within the reach of a developing nation villager, particularly if savings in transportation cost, say substituting a voice or e–mail for a bus trip, or an increase in income, perhaps finding a better price for a product, offsets it. | | | One of the hopes for networking in developing nations is that by bringing education, health care, news, entertainment, contact with the outside, employment, etc. to rural areas, the quality of life may rise to a point where migration to crowded cities will be diminished. | | | Anyone with experience in developing nations is justifiably skeptical of government projects; however, IPTO decisions were not made by government bureaucrats, but by visionary faculty members from universities who were brought in for temporary assignments. |
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| | id21 - communicating development research |
| | health, education, urban poverty and infrastructure, and social and economic policy in developing countries. | | | The ability of health services to deliver care depends on the knowledge, skills and motivation of health workers. | | | With increasing pressure to reach universal primary education and provide education for all, is quality being neglected? |
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| | Economic growth rates of industrialized and developing nations, global economic adjustments, and labour markets |
| | The World Bank has predicted that developing nations will absorb 50% of global foreign direct investment within 25 years, more than doubling their share since the early 1980s. | | | "The fastest-growing part of the world economy is in the developing world, not in the industrialized nations," said Robert Miller, senior consultant to the International Finance Corporation (IFC), an arm of the World Bank. | | | UN economist Barry Herman noted that the level of development assistance flowing from North to South is dropping, leaving countries that are unattractive to foreign investors — such as nations in post-conflict situations, or those where per capita income is very low — in dire straits. |
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| | Licensing Resources |
| | ExtraMED is designed to serve the purposes of promoting the literature of developing countries, while subsidising its production and development through subscription revenue. | | | The goal is to help developing countries tackle challenges such as disease, hunger, and economic transition with enhanced scientific knowledge. | | | The costs are borne by the participating libraries. |
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| | Finance & Development, December 2000 - The Role of Short-Term Debt in Recent Crises |
| | Short-term debt owed by developing countries to foreign banks rose from $176 billion to $454 billion between 1990 and 1997. | | | The growth of the developing countries' short-term debt in the 1990s thus reflected the fact that international banks were making more short-term loans even as they were reducing their overall lending to developing countries and their exposure in terms of their capital at risk. | | | Developing countries that had enjoyed short-term debt inflows from BIS-reporting banks of $43.5 billion in 1997 suffered outflows of $85 billion in 1998 (Table 3). |
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| | Toronto, 1988: Economic Declaration -- Developing Countries and Debt |
| | Central to the prospects of the developing countries are a healthy global economic environment and an open trading system, adequate financial flows and, most important, their commitment to appropriate economic reform. | | | The problems of many heavilyindebted developing countries are a cause of economic and political concern and can be a threat to political stability in developing countries. | | | A number of highlyindebted middleincome countries continue to have difficulties servicing their external debt and generating the investment necessary for sustainable growth. |
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| | Dimensions of need - Beating the debt burden |
| | Developing countries are far less well placed, spending about one-fifth of all their export earnings for debt servicing. | | | Debt swaps - by which foreign investors write off part of a country's debt in exchange for local currency which they invest within the debtor nation -provide another mechanism. | | | As external debt has to be paid in foreign exchange the relative difference between the present value of debt service (PV) and the export of goods and all services (XGS) is important. |
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| | Justice and Peace: Global Debt |
| | For many years, debt repayments from developing countries to the global North have exceeded the flow of new investments, loans and grants to developing countries. | | | During the past 30 years, developing countries have borrowed large sums of money from international lending institutions, governments of industrialized countries, and commercial banks. | | | During the Jubilee year, debts were forgiven and land that had been sold to repay debts was returned to the original owners. |
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| | Statement from Debt Caucus |
| | The debt burden of developing countries remains one of the main obstacles to poverty eradication and sustainable development. | | | For instance, the stock of debt of all the developing countries grew from USD1.4 trillion in 1990 to 2.5 trillion in 2000; this, despite debt service payments estimated at USD 3 trillion during that period. | | | Any long-term solution to debt crisis must be linked to fundamental changes in the rules of the international economic and financial system, which will take into account the interests of the developing countries. |
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| | Green Cities: Urban Environmental Solutions - Global Issues Electronic Journal March 2000 |
| | In developing countries, what's been lacking in the past on the part of most people in communities in poor countries is that they've had no good information about what's going on. | | | For example, in Colombia, Tomas Black-Arbelaez, the national leader of the pollution charge program, faced the problem that many of the local agencies that are implementing charges have very little experience with handling funds. | | | It's a huge cost to you, economically and in human life, and so you have it within your power, at reasonable cost, to get this problem down very, very substantially to at least keep it constant, instead of letting it grow, without bankrupting yourself. |
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| | Finding solutions to the debt problems of developing countries |
| | In all three countries, the debt problem is clearly placed in the private sector, distributed between the banking and corporate sectors in varying proportions. | | | The debt crisis of the early 1980s gave rise to a number of mechanisms for reducing the debt burden of heavily indebted countries, among which are various types of debt conversions. | | | Debt re-structuring with foreign banks occurred at a later stage, and for some countries this process was much delayed and the problems of shortage of trade finance was not addressed in time to avoid a serious recession. |
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| | Global Warming and Developing Nations |
| | Developing countries face a difficult decision, whether to sacrifice their economic development for protection against possible ecological problems in the near future. | | | As developing countries build their economies, frequently heavily dependent on manufacturing and energy-costly industries, they increase the risk that they will be ill-affected by global climate changes. | | | Developing nations are caught between a rock and a hard place in the global warming debate. |
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| | Results in |
| | The overwhelming debt burdens of poor countries is a major contributor to the crisis that grips the economies of most developing countries today. | | | African governments alone now have $350 billion of foreign debt and they have to spend two-fifths of their revenues to service it. | | | The IMF's role in increasing the poor's crushing burden of debt is exposed. |
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| | When He Eats Little, She Eats Less |
| | Developing country debt is already on the radar screens of many women's groups - the Mothers' Union highlights developing country debt as one of the most critical issues that the world needs to resolve. | | | If women in the developed world would unite with those in the developing countries to seek to address the injustice of debt in the poorer countries, they would be highly effective. | | | This disproportionately affects women because it is women in developing countries who, as a result, walk up to 15km each day to collect water; it is women who on these journeys risk their own security. |
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| | The Foreign Debt Issue in Developing Countries |
| | The foreign debt issue in developing countries cannot be looked at as a simple financial problem, a technical issue between debtor and creditor, a problem limited to the exclusive relationship between two countries. | | | The cumulative developing countries foreign debt is now about $2.3 trillion, equivalent to one tenth of the wealth produced in the world. | | | If the debtor countries defaulted on the debt, there could be serious economic consequences for the lenders. |
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